Macos – How do Set the ‘ServerName’ directive globally to suppress this message in OS X

apache-http-servermacos-mojave

I'm getting this error message when starting Apache. I'm using macOS Mojave 10.14.5.

AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using Stevens-MacBook-Air.local. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message httpd (pid 856) already running

I added the name server in the httpd.conf file but still am coming up with this error message.

# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.
#
#ServerName www.example.com:80
#ServerName localhost:8080

What am I missing that this message still appears?

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I added the name server in the httpd.conf file but still am coming up with this error message.

Sorry to say but no, you didn’t. This is effectively what you have:

# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.
#
#ServerName www.example.com:80
#ServerName localhost:8080

Note how all of the lines above #ServerName localhost:8080 have # prepended to them. That means they are commented out. Look around that config file; there are other lines that are commented as well as commented out. To make your setting take effect, you need to uncomment it like this.

# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.
#
#ServerName www.example.com:80
ServerName localhost:8080

Then restart Apache and you should be able to access that Apache server at http://localhost:8080 as expected.

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Step 1: Use OpenSSL to produce the keys that are used to secure your site. These keys are used when encrypting and decrypting the traffic to your secure site.

$openssl genrsa -out mydomain.key 1024

Step 2: Generate your own certificate .

 $ openssl req -new -key mydomain.key -x509 -out mydomain.crt

Step 3: Keep the pricate key in the directory /etc/apache2/ssl.key/ and certificate in the directory /etc/apache2/ssl.crt/.

Note: The ssl.key directory must be only readable by root.

Step 4: Now you need to edit httpd.conf file in /etc/apache2.

Now this file should include content like this:

> <VirtualHost *:80>
> 
> ServerAdmin keshav.mohta@dotsquares.com
> 
> DocumentRoot /opt/lampp/htdocs/wsdl
> 
> ServerName www.mydomain.com
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> ServerAlias mydomain.com
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ServerAdmin keshav.mohta@dotsquares.com

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ErrorLog "/opt/lampp/logs/wsdl_error_log"

TransferLog "/opt/lampp/logs/wsdl_access_log"

</VirtualHost>


<Directory /srv/www/htdocs/mydomain-secure>
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Don't change Listen 80 to 443 in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. SSL is configured in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf. SSL is enabled and listening by default with a self signed certificate.

You can get to the default site using SSL just by browsing to https://localhost (you don't need to add the port to the end of the URL).

If you want to forward all HTTP requests to HTTPS (which is what I believe you are trying to achieve), you can either add a permanent redirect, or use the Apache module mod_rewrite.

The easiest and most secure way is to set up a permanent redirect. Enable named virtual hosts and add a Redirect directive to the VirtualHost in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.

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